[Homestead] Pork Fat
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Sat Jul 5 01:47:37 EDT 2008
Well, I am back to trying to relearn what little Russian I learned back in
the dark ages. We had a neighbor who was, as he described himself, a black
Russian Jew immigrant. He and his wife were neat people. She was from
Israel. So, I was thus introduced to both Russian and Jewish studies.
He had been a scholar in Russia and had managed to smuggle at least a
bazillion books out with him, or so it seemed to my young eyes at the time.
I was given free reign over the books and my mother used to tell him he was
encouraging my bad habits <g>
At anyrate, he told us many stories and one of them was that the rules on
foods were put into place partially as punishment for not following orders
and partially because the orders that weren't followed were for health
reasons. He said that the ancient rules were much less intensive and less
restrictive than the modern kosher rules.
Some of the other stuff he talked about were the messed up translations that
went into the various religious documents. The one that always stuck in my
mind was the change from "sea of reeds" to "red sea."
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
>
> Quite possibly so. But
> <Imagination machine ON>
> Is it possible that one, just one, revered rabbi had a great uncle who
> succumbed to a fateful case of trichinosis or something? And said
> rabbi proclaimed the evils of pork and so it went?
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